GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GT 730

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

71 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 730
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs585 million
Shaders1280vs96
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock1506 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs48vs4
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 730
TDP120 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better